No modesty towels here. Mostly, there are male and female onsens or separate times for each to use the same facility. After all, there is nothing wrong with wanting to feel good because you feel normal. For the outsider, though, the facilities will look much the same and more important, so are the traditions and etiquette. Some customs communal bathing, lack of a religion that views sex as sinful,etc obviously allow for nudity and undoubtedly make people less squeamish about it than they are in a country with a puritanical heritage like the US, but I think the US is more of an outlier than Japan in that regard. The secret rules of a points-hacking guru. Cookies Shopping cart Help About Contact us.